James Ross Porter and Ruth John

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Husband James Ross Porter ¹

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           Born: 1803 - West Deer Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1881 - Tarentum, Allegheny Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Prospect Cemetery

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         Father: Robert Porter (1773-1859) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Penrose Alcock (1765-1839) 5

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Ruth John ⁶

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried:  - Prospect Cemetery

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - James Ross Porter

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He was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tarentum, Pennsylvania, and it is said of him that long before the individual communion cup was adopted by the church at large he carried and drank from his own cup at the communion services.

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Notes: Marriage

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He and his wife were cousins.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 80.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 100.

3 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 417.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 77.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 78.

6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 99.